Hello, I'm Kasper Meilgaard —
Technology & Innovation Lead • Full-stack Engineer
Amsterdam, NL • Dutch & English
What I Do
Seasoned tech leader who designs and ships data‑driven platforms and AI‑first customer operations. I combine hands‑on engineering with product thinking, architecture, and leadership to deliver measurable business outcomes.
I operate from zero‑to‑one discovery through global rollout, with privacy‑by‑design and reliability at the core. Recent focus areas include agentic workflows, CRM/CDP operating models, and secure data activation.
Experience
Parley
Technology & Innovation Lead
2025
Leading product, architecture, and delivery of AI‑native customer operations. Defining technical strategy, platform choices, and privacy/security posture while building the solution hands‑on end‑to‑end.
Mars Petcare
Tech Lead / Product Lead, Global CRM & Data Activation (Contract)
2023 – 2024
Defined privacy‑first CRM/CDP operating model across divisions (MVH, Royal Canin, Pet Nutrition). Led vendor strategy and integration patterns; unlocked significant opportunities through harmonized activation.
EssilorLuxottica (incl. GrandVision)
Development Team Lead, CX&D Data — C360 (Contract)
2021 – 2023
Delivered a global C360 platform unifying customer profiles across many markets with consent enforcement and auditability. Enabled segmentation, personalization, and growth with strong privacy and reliability standards.
LeasePlan
Technical Product Owner / Product Lead
2019 – 2020
Shipped predictive maintenance and cost‑control products for a global vehicle fleet. Reduced downtime and achieved meaningful per‑vehicle savings by combining telemetry, detection models, and explainable UX.
Projects
Agentic AI Collections (Parley)
parley.co.za2025
Production‑grade, fully automatic collections agent with multi‑LLM orchestration, RAG, guardrails, evaluation harnesses, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls.
TendScout
tendscout.comCo‑Founder / CTO
2024 – Present
Intelligent tender discovery and qualification platform using ML and structured search.
Hello Dorothy
hellodorothy.orgFounder
2022 – 2023
Conversational nutrition assistant using LLMs and structured tracking.
Alta Ofteco
Co‑founder
2021 – 2023
Sophisticated cryptocurrency market maker with high‑frequency and statistical strategies implemented in performant systems.
Expertise
- Technology Leadership & Architecture
- Data/CRM/CDP (Salesforce, Treasure Data, CDP)
- AI/ML (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, RAG, Evaluation)
- Cloud & DevOps (GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD)
- Backend (Node.js, .NET, GraphQL/REST)
- Frontend (React, Next.js, TypeScript)
- Data Engineering (Airflow, BigQuery, PySpark, PostgreSQL)
- Identity & Privacy (Auth0, Azure AD, OneTrust, OIDC/SAML)